The Chinese Classic of Family Reverence: A Philosophical Translation of the Xiaojing pdf

Henry Rosemont ha ricevuto il suo dottorato di ricerca. in filosofia all'Università di Washington, e ha proseguito gli studi post-dottorato in linguistica (e politica) con Noam Chomsky al MIT. Le sue aree di ricerca e scrittura sono la filosofia e la religione cinesi, in particolare il primo confucianesimo, la teoria morale e politica, la filosofia della religione e la filosofia del linguaggio. Ha scritto A Chinese Mirror (1991), Rationality & Religious Experience (2001), e con Huston Smith, Is There a Universal 'Grammar' of Religion? (2007). Ha curato e/o tradotto altri dieci libri, tra cui Explorations in Early Chinese Cosmology (1984), Leibniz: Writings on China (con D.J. Cook, 1994), Chinese Texts & Philosophical Contexts, e con Roger T.Ames, The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation (1998) e The Classic of Family Reverence (2008). Dal 1982-84, e di nuovo nel 1993-94, è stato Fulbright Senior Professor of Philosophy & Linguistics alla Fudan University di Shanghai, dove ora è Senior Consulting Professor, e contemporaneamente Visiting Professor of Religious Studies alla Brown University.

The Chinese Classic of Family Reverence: A Philosophical Translation of the Xiaojing pdf da Henry Rosemont

From its origins in the prehistoric past, an ever-evolving Chinese cul-ture has been unique among the world’s civilizations, both in terms of its unbroken continuity and in the rich and varied institutional, material, and conceptual artifacts its peoples have produced. At the same time, this richness and variety guarantees that many of these artifacts will have at least partial counterparts in other civilizations, thus making it difficult to isolate, in brief compass, what it is about Chinese culture that does indeed make it unique.